Coat hanger detachable pants hanger



R. c. DONA'HUE 2,937,796

COAT HANGER DETACHABLE PANTS HANGER May 24, 1960 Filed Feb. 19, 1958E0552 6. Down/v05 BY' W United States Patent COAT HANGER DETACHABLEPANTS HANGER Robert C. Donahue, 5833 Primrose Ave., Indianapolis 20,Ind.

Filed Feb. 19, 1958, Ser. No. 716,130

1 Claim. (Cl. 223-98) This invention relates to a pants hanger structurewhich may be carried by the ordinary wire garment hanger and consistsessentially of a slit strip of fiber board or even thin sheet metal ifthe cost is not prohibitive, through which the cuffs of pants'arecarried to allow the upper edges of each cuflE to drop down against themarginal sides of the slit, and to have either the arms or a cross barof the hanger support the board or sheet as will hereinafter be morefully explained.

A primary object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly simpleand most inexpensive means for hanging a pair of trousers by their cuifsin a manner whereby the legs of the trousers are not hung over a crossmember of the hanger which normally sets up transverse creases where notdesired.

Furthermore, the device embodying the invention is applicable to any ofthe well known and standard formed garment hangers most generally madeout of a single length of wire. These and many other objects andadvantages of the invention will become apparent to those versed in theart by the following description of the invention, in which:

Fig. l is a view in side elevation of a garment hanger to which theinvention is applied;

Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section on the line 2-2 in Fig. 1 on anenlarged scale;

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of a holder;

Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the holder in a curved form;

Fig. 5 is a view in end elevation of the holder shown in Fig. 3; and

Fig. 6 is a view of the structure embodying the invention supported onthe arms of the hanger.

A generally rectangular holder 10 is formed out of any suitable materialsuch as cardboard, fiber or plastic board, or even thin gauge metal.This holder 10 is provided with a centrally disposed slot 11therethrough extending throughout the major length of the holder. Theholder may be used in the flat state as indicated in Figs. 3 and 5, orpreferably it may be curved to slope downwardly and outwardly from eachside of the slot 11 as indicated in Fig. 4.

In either form of the holder, the cuffs 12 and 13 of the trouser legs 14and 15 are gripped together, and pulled through the slot 11 by spreadingthe margins thereof apart sufliciently to permit that entrance andtravel through of the cuffs. In the form shown in Fig. 4 the holder maybe readily manipulated since the portions thereof on each side of theslot 11 may be sprung readily outwardly from theother to permit thepassage therethrough of these culfs.

In the form shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the cross bar 16 of the hanger 17will have been inserted between the legs 14 and 15 prior to the carryingthe cufis 12 and 13 through the slot 11, and after those cufis have sobeen pulled through, then the cross bar 16 is pulled upwardly and thecuff edges 18 and 19 extend downwardly into contact with the margins ofthe slot 11. The hanger 17 is then held by its hook 20, whereupon thecross bar 16 comes up snugly between the legs 14 and 15, one leg on eachside of the bar 16, and the cuffs normally swinging together instead ofremaining apart as shown for the sake of clearness in Fig. 2. In anyevent, the trousers generallyindicated by the number 21 are securelysupported.

When it is not desirable to place the bar 16 preliminarily between thelegs 14 and 15, the cufis may be carried through the slot 11 of theholder 10 and then the upper hook portion 20 of the hanger 17 isinserted through the slot 11 either at one side of both cuffs, orcentrally therebetween, to allow the holder to drop downwardly and bearon the arms 22 and 23 of the hanger 17 as indicated in Fig. 6. r

In this later form the trousers may be removed readily from the hanger17, without disturbing a coat which may be hanging below across the arms22 and 23, and in any event in packing the trousers for travel or thelike, the hanger 17 is disengaged readily without having to take theholder oil of the legs by pulling the cuffs 12 and 13 back through theslot 11.

Thus it is to be seen that I have presented a very simple and yetextremely eifective device for supporting trousers by their cuffs by useof the single strip of material constituting the holder 10, all withoutany complicated bending or dieing operations. Therefore, while I haveshown my invention in the particular form as above described, it isobvious that structural changes may be employed without departing fromthe spirit of the invention, and I therefore do not desire to be limitedto that precise form beyond the limitations which may be imposed by thefollowing claim..

I claim:

The combination with a coat hanger having a cross bar extendingthereacross on its under side, around which bar a pair of trousershaving cuiis at the bottoms of the trouser legs may be suspended ininverted position and hanging from said bar: of a strip of flexiblematerial having a single slit therethrough; the flexible materialnormally having an inverted V-shape in cross-section with said slitbeing at the apex of that shape; said strip being positioned above saidbar and said trouser legs, one each, extending upwardly on oppositesides of the bar and brought together in side by side contact over thetop side of the bar and thence upwardly through said slit allowing themarginal edges of the slit to spring back against sides of and under thetop sides of said legs and cuffs which bear downwardly over said stripalong oppo site marginal edge portions of the slit; the bearing of saidcults on said slit margins pressing said strip by its under side againstthose portions of said trouser legs intervening between said bar andsaid strip.

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